return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 26 days agoWhat's the "keeping it real" history that Americans are taught the whitewashed version in school?message-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down13
arrow-up119arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the "keeping it real" history that Americans are taught the whitewashed version in school?return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 26 days agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-squareDrusas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·26 days agoAs someone from the north, we were very explicitly taught that the civil war was about slavery.
minus-squarekelpie_is_trying@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·26 days agoAs someone from the south; we were not. I was lucky enough to have a cousin with an anti-authority complex and internet access, but most of my classmates were not.
minus-squareBytemeister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoThe “War of Northern Agression” started by Confederates shooting at an American fort.
minus-squarerottingleaf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·25 days agoI mean, such things can be false flags. It wouldn’t make sense, the Confederates were much weaker strategically and knew it.
As someone from the north, we were very explicitly taught that the civil war was about slavery.
As someone from the south; we were not. I was lucky enough to have a cousin with an anti-authority complex and internet access, but most of my classmates were not.
The “War of Northern Agression” started by Confederates shooting at an American fort.
I mean, such things can be false flags. It wouldn’t make sense, the Confederates were much weaker strategically and knew it.